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Martin Taylor is chief technical officer of Metaswitch Networks. He joined the company in 2004, and headed up product management prior to becoming CTO. Previous roles have included founding CTO at CopperCom, a pioneer in Voice over DSL, where he led the ATM Forum standards initiative in Loop Emulation; VP of Network Architecture at Madge Networks, where he led the company’s successful strategy in Token Ring switching; and business general manager at GEC-Marconi, where he introduced key innovations in Passive Optical Networking. Martin has a degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. In January 2014, Martin was recognized by Light Reading as one of the top five industry “movers and shakers” in Network Functions Virtualization.
Posted By Martin Taylor on April 29, 2020
Mobile broadband and wireline broadband have always existed in their own separate worlds. With wireline broadband standards defined by the Broadband ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on February 01, 2017
Metaswitch is very pleased to be among the founding members of OpenECOMP. As one of the first four announced vendors in AT&T’s Domain 2.0 ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on November 16, 2016
One of the biggest frustrations that service providers currently have with implementing network functions virtualization (NFV) is on-boarding virtual ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on November 07, 2016
I attended SDN World Congress in The Hague a couple weeks ago and among many meetings there I had a conversation with David Snow, Principle Analyst ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on March 31, 2016
NFV and SDN both play key roles in the ongoing evolution of telco networks to support flexible, programmable and composable services on a generic ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on December 09, 2015
Many of the network operators that we are talking to about virtualized network functions (VNFs) are investing heavily in building specially ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on July 23, 2015
NFV can’t be a clean break from the past; it’s got to coexist with what’s already out there in the network. And there are some good technologies that ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on July 03, 2015
Open can mean different things to different people in the context of NFV, but it plays a very significant role.
Posted By Martin Taylor on June 03, 2015
There’s a debate going on about how much we should let standards bodies specify NFV versus how much we should just rely on de facto standards. I ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on March 20, 2015
Service providers typically have an IT infrastructure which is running cloud and virtualization today. They also have a bunch of physical network ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on March 17, 2015
Open Platform NFV (OPNFV) and the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group are both very much collaborative activities, and there is a lot of sharing ...
Posted By Martin Taylor on February 24, 2015
Network operators have highlighted elastic scalability as one of the most important new capabilities that network functions virtualization (NFV) ...